The EITB 1964 to 1991
Subtitle: the lessons to be learned
By: by Peter Senker ; foreword by E. Pennant Jones.
Contributors: Engineering Industry Training Board.
Publisher: EITB Publications
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [Watford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Engineering Industry Training Board.
Description: Part I: The British Educaton and Training System - Education & Industry - Training up to 1979 - Training in the Thatcher Years
Part II: Controversies on Training Levies - Effects fo the 1973 Employment and Taining Act - Apprenticeship in Crisis - Directing and Planning the EITB (Enineering Industry Training Board) - EITB Attempts to Modernize Training - EITB Successes - TECs Training Transformation? - Industrial Training in a Cold Climate.
Notes: Summary of the author's Industrial Taining in a Cold Climate.
The "Cold Climate" was the political climate in which Industrial Training Boards had to operate.  Constant reviewing and variation in training policy and systems made it uncertain for industry.  Systems were never given sufficient time to mature, develop and improve themselves before imposed change led to a new start.   The book makes a case for some Government enducement or positive encouragement on industries to train well.  There is little evidence that total reliance on voluntary systems will deliver the quality and volume of industrial training needed.  Well-trainined 
Professional Engineers, skilled technicians and craftsmen remain, and will remain, vital to the British Economy.
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